DFW uses slashes "/" for certain common phrases. most common is w/ or w/o for "with" and "without". w/r/t for 'with regard to".In Brief Interviews I see h/t/t and can't decipher what it stands to represent.

I forget the page but earlier in the text (either the same or an earlier paragraph) the speaker refers to his father-in-law's "holier-than-thou" attitude. That one threw me for a loop too until I dug backwards a bit.

I've actually just got through this section in my current reading of Interviews, so if you want a specific reference here's one from the only full paragraph on page 115 (of the hardcover edition): ". . . the old man had been typically judgmental and holier-than-thou . . ." and, later in the same sentence, "ever since that rocky period and the old man's h/t/t condemnations X has felt somehow provisional and tangential . . ."

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